A National Party No MoreOne of the best things about Tuesday's elections was that it was a repudiation of Zell Miller. Remember four years ago when Miller, a washed-up has-been who had been appointed to the Senate after Paul Coverdell died, became the darling of the right when he endorsed George W. Bush. Miler, a Democrat, proclaimed that the GOP was the wave of the future and that the Democrats were no longer a national party (I sure on the remainder tables of your local bookstore you can find a copy of Millers's 2003 manifesto A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat).

On Tuesday, Obama not only did well in the South, carrying Florida, Virgina, and North Carolina, but the last GOP member of the U.S. House, Christopher Shays, was defeated. What a difference four years makes.